* 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time.

On October 17, 2007, the final stretch of the motorway, between Uppsala and Mehedeby was opened.

Making this stretch a motorway would prevent any traffic not permitted to use motorways from crossing the Thames east of the Woolwich Ferry.

* 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

Riina wanted the murder carried out in Sicily in a demonstration of Mafia power, he instructed that the attack should be on a stretch of coastal motorway Falcone had to use to get from the airport on his visits.

In 1965, the first known experiments with variable speed limit signs took place on a 30 km stretch of German motorway A8 between Munich and the border city of Salzburg, Austria.

In June, a stretch of motorway was configured with variable speed limits could increase the general Austrian motorway limit of to.

A new stretch of A4 motorway under construction is expected to further increase the municipalities attractiveness.

The English section of the motorway was completed on 22 December 1971 when the stretch between junctions 9 and 15 ( Maidenhead and Swindon ) was opened to traffic.

Near Junction 35, there is a stretch of the motorway that has a surfacing of porous asphalt that improves drainage and reduces noise.

The motorway is only two lanes in this stretch and is a major traffic congestion blackspot.

Although late in the 1960s, not long after the first stretch of the M40 opened, the Ministry of Transport announced the possibility of building a motorway to link London with Birmingham as an alternative to the M1-M6 routeas well as improving road links to the South Coast ports for The Midlandsit was not until 1983 that the decision to extend the M40 from Oxford to the south of Birmingham was made.

In 1994 a highly controversial road building project was — despite vigorous objection from many quarters — completed and a new stretch of the M3 motorway was created, running through a significant section of the down, which was excavated and removed to create a deep cutting.

In December 2010 work finished on construction of a new stretch of the A421 from Kempston to Junction 13 of the M1 motorway, this now provides a full dual carriageway link road between the A1 and the M1.

Its route remains paralleled by the M6 and M61 motorways here, including the oldest motorway stretch in the UK ( M6 Preston by-pass ).

Within Manchester a short stretch becomes the A57 ( M ) motorway ( the Mancunian Way ).

The road shares space with of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir, at this point the motorway has 3 lanes in each direction, making it the most northerly stretch of motorway in the UK to be 3 lanes wide.

This was the first stretch of motorway to open south of London.

At 80 km it is the second longest stretch of motorway in Ireland, excluding connecting motorways.

The section of the motorway bypassing Naas, an 8 km stretch, was the first section of motorway to open in Ireland, in 1983.

There were plans to widen the M1 motorway, which if given the go-ahead would have transformed the stretch of the M1 that bisects Leicester Forest East from the current eight lanes to ten lanes.

Construction of a stretch of motorway between Arklow and Rathnew is expected to begin in September 2011.

You'll know when you've made the greatest stretch because your shoulder blades will touch!!

Herkimer contributed many firsts to the sport: the founding of the Cheerleader & Danz Team cheerleading uniform supply company, inventing the herkie ( where one leg is bent towards the ground and the other is out to the side as high as it will stretch in the toe-touch position ), and creating the " Spirit Stick ".

However, if the cruise control is engaged on a stretch of flat road, then the car will travel slower going uphill and faster when going downhill.

A black-tailed prairie dog will stretch the length of its body vertically and throw its forefeet into the air while making a call.

But the prosecutor wants to nail someone, so he offers you a deal: if you squeal on your associate – which will result in his getting a five year stretch – the prosecutor will see that six months is taken off of your sentence.

According to the plan established by ASEAN, this stretch is scheduled for completion by 2020 ; it will form part of the Singapore – Kunming Rail Link project, overseen by the ASEAN – Mekong Basin Development Cooperation ( AMBDC ).

Study abroad programs are designed to take academic or service experiences to a new level, stretch the imagination, deepen a student ’ s understanding of the world that surrounds him and create memories that will last a lifetime.

A sterile liquid ( water, saline, or glycine solution ) will flow through the cystoscope to slowly fill the bladder and stretch it so that the doctor has a better view of the bladder wall.

A spastic muscle will have immediately noticeable, often quite forceful, increased resistance to passive stretch when moved with speed and / or while attempting to be stretched out, as compared to the non-spastic muscles in the same person's body ( if any exist ).

A thorough assessment will include analysis of posture, active movement, muscle strength, movement control and coordination, and endurance, as well as spasticity ( response of the muscle to stretch ).

The first segment is a short stretch between Alabama State Route 79 and Alabama State Route 75 near Pinson that construction will begin in 2013 as all of the right of way has now been acquired.

Dubbed the Farmington Canal Greenway, when completed it will stretch from New Haven, Connecticut to Northampton, Massachusetts, following the route of the historical Farmington Canal.

The Miami County Bike Trail will be a north-south paved trail that will stretch the length of Miami County, allowing bikers, hikers and hitchhikers to follow the path of the Great Miami River and Miami and Erie Canal ( famously named after Beau " erie " Patterson ).

For example, if the slave is a microcontroller, its I²C interface will stretch the clock after each byte, until the software decides whether to send a positive acknowledgment or a NACK.

Males will fly around over a stretch of water defending a territory and if the pond is small the male will hover over the centre of the pond.

: What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

As the two active rifts continue to open, eventually the continental crust is attenuated as far as it will stretch.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain.

Volunteers working on behalf of Churnet Valley Railway, will carry out repairs on the four-mile stretch of track, supported by contractors.

* In the event that the bolus gets stuck or moves slower than the primary peristaltic wave ( as can happen when it is poorly lubricated ), stretch receptors in the esophageal lining are stimulated and a local reflex response causes a secondary peristaltic wave around the bolus, forcing it further down the esophagus, and these secondary waves will continue indefinitely until the bolus enters the stomach.

A weir will increase the depth of a shallow stretch, and the required lock will either be built in a gap in the weir, or at the downstream end of an artificial cut which bypasses the weir and perhaps a shallow stretch of river below it.